Hi Fabio, On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 02:23:25PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote: > On Tuesday, August 3, 2021 9:21:30 AM CEST Fabio Aiuto wrote: > > > > Do you have any idea of what happened? This > > topic could give us all deeper understanding > > of kernel memory management. > > > Hi Fabio, > > I've just briefly looked at that c7e88ecbe328. I have no time to dig it deeper > but at a first look it seems that the following line is the culprit: > > kfree(&pmlmepriv->assoc_req); > > It should be: > > kfree(pmlmepriv->assoc_req); I think you are right :) I didn't noticed rtw_buf_free's first argument is a double star pointer. > > The second line frees the memory location whose address is saved in assoc_rec; > the first line instead frees assoc_req itself. > > Regards, > > Fabio > > > thank you, fabio